SAXIFRAGA. 



pyrenaica of nurseries, has also yielded a thin and straggly-growing 

 form with remarkable blooms of very intense purple rose-crimson, de- 

 serving the name of S. splendidissima. 



8. opp. Natkorstii differs in nothing from the type, except that the 

 leaves are alternate on the shoots, so that the plant ceases to be 

 rightfully oppositi folia at all. 



8. opp. Rudol phiana. See 8. rudolphiana. 



8. opp. speciosa is a most splendid form. The habit is rather lax and 

 the leafage large, the leaves themselves being blunt and keelless. The 

 flowers are of quite exceptional size, hearty in rich rose, and very 

 often with six handsomely-rounded petals instead of five, thus attain- 

 ing quite a novel effect of opulence. 



S. oregonensis is of no value. 



S. pallida has almost, if not quite, passed out of cultivation. It is 

 a Himalayan Boraphila, with a small loose rosette of scalloped leathern 

 leaves, and one rather large flower, as a rule, solitary on the solitary 

 scape, emerging from a dark-brown or purple calyx, and itself white, 

 often with a basal stain of purple. It seems hard to keep, but by no 

 means the least attractive of its dull group. 



S. palpebrata is a high Himalayan Hirculus, forming neat dense 

 tufts, with almost round small green leaves and stems of 3 or 4 inches 

 carrying golden blooms. 



8. paniculata, Cav., stands almost indistinguishably close to 

 S. pentadactylis, q.v. 



S. x paradoxa is a hybrid, clearly of Incrustata blood, possibly 

 tinctured with that of 8. lingidata. It makes cushions of especially 

 handsome rosettes, the leaves being long and very narrow indeed, 

 leathery and of a profound sombre iron -green, edged with a con- 

 spicuous beading of silver. It thrives anywhere, and is worth growing 

 for the foliage alone, and only for the foliage. For the flowers are quite 

 ugly, after the worst forms of 8. aeizoon and S. incrustata — small 

 and fat and cream-coloured, stodgOy carried in close short -branched 

 spikes on 6-inch hairy stems of dark-brown. 



S. x patens represents a very far-sought alliance — that between two 

 species so remote in the race as S. caesia and S. aeizoeides. It is a 

 rare prize in nature, but may sometimes be seen where the parents 

 abound, as for instance in the huge basin of scree and shingle below 

 the Hubel of the Rosenlaui Glacier. It forms tidy loose tufts of small 

 rosetted shoots, looking like those of an enlarged, relaxed, brighter- 

 green S. caesia, with the oblong-narrow blunt little recurving leaves 

 eyelashed at their base with hairs, as in S. aeizoeides, but dowered 

 with an extra pair of lime-pits by 8. caesia. The flower-stems are 



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